Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looked at the guest register for that day, and found a bunch of Israels and Utahs and Hong Kongs, as well as scattered representatives of London, Yugoslavia, Alberta, Tegucigalpa, Paris, Hungary and Oslo...
...wastelands on opposite sides of the world. High above Canada's Northwest Territories, an American B-52 launched a cigar-shaped cruise missile over the frozen Beaufort Sea. After flying at 500 m.p.h. and occasionally skimming as low as several hundred feet, the weapon touched down smoothly in Alberta four hours after launch. It was the first successful cruise test in a year...
...straight from the cotton field to the College, as a scout in the Union Army, as the son of a rebel general, and so on," the book quotes a Harvard Harvard Alumni Bulletin of 1964. Radcliffe did not grant its first B.A. to a Black woman until 1898, when Alberta V. Scott graduated...
...should Crimson undergrads care about some place up in Alberta, about 3000 miles northwest of Cambridge? What possible connections link Calgary and Harvard...
Mercantile's troubles follow the failure of two institutions in the oil- rich western province of Alberta: Calgary-based Northland Bank and Edmonton- based Canadian Commercial Bank. Incorporated in the 1970s, the two banks lent millions of dollars to oil and real estate businesses. Then in the early 1980s many of the banks' loans turned sour. Together the two banks controlled only about 1% of all Canadian bank assets, so the fallout from their failures was limited. But investors are anxious about the safety of smaller banks...